Please or to access all these features

Add post

Watch this thread

Save thread

Start a new thread

Flip thread

Hide thread

My feed

Active Unanswered threads

Getting started FAQ's

Unanswered threads Acronyms Talk guidelines

Hide shortcut buttons

Talk

General health

Mumsnet doesn't verify the qualifications of users. If you have medical concerns, please consult a healthcare professional.

Flip

Original poster

Is she sleepwalking?

12 replies

Sugarmagnolia · 09/05/2007 15:43

So twice in the last week my 6 yr old DD has gotten up in the night, come into my room to tell me complete rubbish (the first time she "needed that thing that was in her room", the second time she "didn't want to change the weather back to rainy") then went straight back to bed without waiting for any kind of reply! It's so wierd - do you think she was sleepwalking?

OP posts:

fryalot · 09/05/2007 15:50

sounds like it.

sleepwalking often runs in families - does anybody else do it?

Haribosmum · 09/05/2007 15:51

Yeah sounds like it. My son sleepwalks and usually just goes downstairs, switches the TV on and falls asleep on the sofa. I scared my dh the other night though because the baby woke up and I asked him for the scissors!!!

Original poster

Sugarmagnolia · 09/05/2007 16:05

No, noone else in the family as far as I know. She talks to us sometimes when we go in to check on her before we go to bed but never actually gotten out of bed before now. She looks so serious and then just says something ridiculous - I was trying really hard not to laugh at her!

OP posts:

cheeryface · 09/05/2007 16:07

my boy does that too

Original poster

Sugarmagnolia · 09/05/2007 16:23

Is it anything to worry about? Why all of a sudden?

OP posts:

misdee · 09/05/2007 16:26

dd1 sleep walks and sleep talks, dd2 sleep walks, sleep talks and grinds her teeth. [shudders]

cheeryface · 09/05/2007 16:51

i find he does it when he's really tired/overtired

Gameboy · 09/05/2007 16:55

DS1 does this. Talks lucidly about complete gibberish:

"Mummy, we MUST find the guinea pig" (we don't have one, never had)

"I think the answer is 47, or maybe 48?" (WTF was THAT about??)

dustystar · 09/05/2007 16:58

dd (8) does this from time to time. I can't rememeber the first time she did it but she certainly hasn't always done it. I don't think its anything to worry about.

3littlefrogs · 09/05/2007 17:03

Yes - dd sleepwalks. I never try to wake her - just reply quietly to whatever she is saying, but that it is time to go to bed now, usually she just gets back into bed. However - I have had a couple of scares when she has been on her way out of the house. I have put the keys up high, but am afraid to hide them in case of fire etc (paranoid because I knew a family who died in a house fire - couldn't find the door keys). I have attached some "jingle bell" type things to her bedroom door so that I can hear her if she wanders at night.

I do worry about school trips and Brownie camp though.

DH has tried to wake her once - because he didn't cotton on to the fact that she was sleepwalking - resulted in terrified hysterics.

Original poster

Sugarmagnolia · 09/05/2007 20:50

I'm intrigued now - I wonder if she'll do it again

OP posts:

onefunkymama · 09/05/2007 21:50

I am an adult and I still sleepwalk when I am stressed or over tired. have searched high and low for a cure but have found one. I am less likely to sleepwalk in unfamiliar places but I do odd things. The worst and most scarey ever was to put a pillow (tucked in tightly) over the feet of my 3 week old baby- imagaine what would have happened if I had put it over her head.

My kids don't seem to sleepwalk tho

Flip